Granted: I see a revision in the limits UI for project and for organization, where we no longer see “set a budget” - which would send merely a notification email and was not the removed “hard limit”. Instead there is language for “Alerts” now, and for configuring all as only one type instead of appearing as a “budget” with more “email alerts” possible.
That is a better description of what was offered.
If you actually got a project turned off while you still had an organization balance, that is quite contrary to expectations and what has been happening.
You can visit this topic I created months back, where at least the current presentation in the platform is a good response, in that an API developer is not misinformed by the language.